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Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'The relations between marine animal and vegetable life' by H M Vernon

Reference number: RR/13/296

Date: 18 January 1898

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Recommended for publication in 'not more than six pages' of the Proceedings. The paper appears to be 'purely tentative' and is not suitable for Philosophical Transactions. It does contain a number of careful experiments with yield 'remarkable results', which should be published.

Subject: Zoology

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1898].

Reference number
RR/13/296
Earliest possible date
18 January 1898
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Edwin Ray Lankester

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Edwin Ray Lankester, Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'The relations between marine animal and vegetable life' by H M Vernon, 18 January 1898, RR/13/296, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_296/referees-report-by-edwin-ray-lankester-on-a-paper-the-relations-between-marine-animal-and-vegetable-life-by-h-m-vernon, accessed on 17 June 2025

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